DARK SECRETS: 2 | Vintage Vibes

This week in history: Nat King Cole interrupted, beaten during Alabama concert

Cole, who died this week on Feb. 15, was performing in Birmingham, Alabama, on April 10, 1956, when KKK members stormed the stage and attacked him.

Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 18, 2022

Mother nature’s son: the exotic world of songwriter eden ahbez

Long-haired and vegetarian, with no interest in money, eden ahbez, the writer of Nat King Cole’s 1948 classic Nature Boy, is only now being recognised as the first of the hippies

The Guardian - UK · Jan 25, 2022